The ESPN broadcast focused on Bryce Huff on Monday night.

The edge rusher, who the Eagles guaranteed $34 million in the offseason to replace Haason Reddick, was invisible in Week 1 against the Packers, but the logic was that he could reawaken Philadelphia’s surprisingly — and worryingly — dormant pass rush if he finally got going against Atlanta.

Instead, he clashed with his blocker at the snap, offering little resistance or movement as Falcons running back Bijan Robinson ran up the middle and made multiple yards.

Huff had little impact, on that play and in the entire deflating 22-21 loss Monday night. The 26-year-old has no sacks, no tackles for a loss and one combined tackle credit in his first two weeks as an Eagle. He has as many sacks as Reddick, who hasn’t even played yet because he currently refuses to play for the New York Jets until he’s traded.

And it looks as bad as it stands.

But it wasn’t just him.

Josh Sweat, who improved year-over-year prior to the 2023 season and was perhaps one of the NFL’s most underrated edge rushers, had four tackles (two solo) on Monday night and is down to five tackles this young season.

Jalen Carter was constantly double-covered inside as the only threat the Falcons, and the Packers the week before, took seriously and he couldn’t find a way to overcome that, while his fellow Georgia first-round picks Jordan Davis and Nolan Smith (unless you catch him eating a chip block) were virtually nowhere to be seen to relieve the pressure.

Brandon Graham, who is 36, in his 15th and final season and was expected to play a limited role, instead appeared to be the Eagles’ most effective rusher, while Thomas Booker IV recorded two tackles for loss and played three total snaps in just nine snaps behind everyone else on the depth chart.

Milton Williams had the only sack of the night, on a key third-down situation and deservedly so, but against a very immobile Kirk Cousins ​​​​dealing with an Achilles injury and a very exploitable Falcons offensive line that the Eagles just… couldn’t tackle.

Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio refused to apply pressure on the blitz for most of the night. When he finally relented and called a play that led everyone to victory, Cousins ​​immediately gave them a boost with a 41-yard touchdown pass to Darnell Mooney that put the Falcons back in front, 15-10.

The Eagles’ offense took back the lead and created a situation where they could stall out the clock, but Saquon Barkley missed the opportunity and the defense was unable to hold.

“It’s a wake-up call to never be lax with anything or anyone,” linebacker Nakobe Dean said afterward.

And a sobering thought, given the optimism that prevailed during training camp just a month ago.

During training camp, the forwards would harp on after practices about how cleverly disguised and difficult it was to master Fangio’s schemes. And amid a suddenly younger defensive line following the retirement of Fletcher Cox and the trade of Reddick, Davis insisted that the future had to come now.

“Absolutely,” the third-year nose tackle said in August. “We’re all the future. It doesn’t move unless we go.

“We only have one D-line unit, and like I’ve been saying since OTAs, nobody’s coming to save us. So we all have to make sure we do our part and be the best people we can be, the best defensive tackles we can be.”

But after two weeks they still aren’t moving.

Linebacker Zack Baun is the team’s best player in sacks, with two in Week 1 alone. On the ground, the Eagles’ D-line was shredded for 163 yards by Green Bay and then for 152 yards by Robinson and the Falcons.

The Eagles are 1-1, still in a brand new season, but expectations are high and the defense has not been particularly strong thus far, despite the large amount of resources invested in it over the spring and summer.

But they need to think quickly, especially with the stunning offensive prowess of the New Orleans Saints.

As Davis said, no one is coming to save them.

“As a defense, we were embarrassed,” Graham said after the game from his locker room. “We want to do well.”

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